The ring deposits you all safely outside the base and seals up afterwards. Neo Metal Sonic doesn't chase after you, which is something of a mercy.
What's significantly less of a mercy is the sky - it's gone dark and ominously stormy, though the clouds spark not with lightning, but with that same green Chaos Energy you've been facing this entire fight. Worse still, there are now far, far too many robotic planes filling the sky - the Egg Fleet seems to go on endlessly, as far as you can see. Though perhaps it would be more accurate to call it the Neo Metal Sonic Fleet.
Sonic and friends arrive shortly, looking pretty banged up but otherwise still healthy enough to make it here, though they stare up at the sky with obvious concern.
"O...kay, this is definitely not what any of us were expecting."
"We will have to take the fight to them, it seems."
"Easier said than done, I'm afraid... I'm not sure how to pinpoint their leader's exact location to send you all with a ring..."
A jolt of green lightning flashes across the sky and Neo Metal Sonic's voice rings out.
"I expect to see you onboard my fleet in one week's time. That includes you, my loathsome copy."
It seems you don't really have much of a choice. For now, tend to your wounds and try to regroup; you've earned a break after today.
[Sonic just looks confused by that. Whomst the heck. Anyway, your colorful pals are here in case you want to check them over; they're thankfully not too badly injured and were mostly just knocked out. They'll be just fine on their own even without healing, but if you want to chat with them or heal them, you can!]
[ redd really writing that the furry children aren't going to get healed after everything that they've been through??? obviously there's more than three, so wolfwood will pick sonic, tails, and knuckles to heal if he's constrained to limits.
there are no words from wolfwood. just making sure that they're no longer injured to start off with. ]
Edited (WAIT SHADOW AND INFINITE AREN'T HERE... i believe.) 2025-03-02 01:14 (UTC)
[Sure enough, Viktor crashed both literally and figuratively the second they were relatively safe, lying on his back in a tangle of damaged and smoking metal sparking with blue magic.]
...Is anyone else seeing that, or am I malfunctioning?
[Thankfully Wolfwood has seen to them, so they're all healed up! Tails is still sitting outside, watching the sky. For once, he's not working on anything, and his worried expression falls away with Dorothy greets him.]
Hi Dorothy— Oh!
[He returns that hug easily, of course.]
Yeah, we're all okay. Wolfwood was kind enough to heal us, so we're good as new!
[He's unsteady on his feet, but that doesn't stop him from going right over to Viktor as soon as he sees the man tilt over and hit the ground.]
Easy, easy my friend... [Kneeling down to take a better look at him - thank god he's been getting better practice with this telekinesis of his so that he feels he could try to do some damage control here.]
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